Again, we've heard legal scholars before the subcommittee who say we have obligations, and I believe we have obligations, under the genocide convention. What is the point of being party to a genocide convention if our response is that someone else has to do the investigative work? I think I've made the point on that.
I want to ask about the International Finance Corporation, which is a significant development partner for Canada. IFC has approximately $486 million U.S. in direct loans and equity investments in four companies operating in the Uighur region. Here is some information about those companies:
Evidence drawn from corporate disclosures and publicity campaigns, government directives and state media, and other publicly accessible information reveals that these four companies have:
directly participated in and benefited from state-sponsored forced labour programs,
directly participated in and benefited from state-sponsored compulsory land expropriation,
participated in programs that require minoritized citizens to take oaths to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and be subjected to indoctrination....
There are other various concerning practices.
What has the government's engagement been with the International Finance Corporation around divesting from investments in the Uighur region?